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Johann Sebastian Staedtler 🇨🇦

Regarding the choice of age ranges: my first intention is to separate adults from not-adults, so I picked age 18 as the threshold.

But beyond that, I'm kind of interested in the generational demographics. Gen Z is roughly as old as age 27, after which are Millenials. And the divide between them and Gen X is somewhere in the early 40s, but for simplicity I'm just using 40 as the cut-off.

If I could have more than four poll options, I would have been much more deliberate and precise, but shrug

hesir Jul 6, 2023

@jsstaedtler I'm 54, my mother was born in 1928 (I think some of the Earp's were still alive), she had me late, I'm the youngest of eight. She, I guess, was one of "the (I originally wrote "Lost" but meant) Silent Generation", so as her child, not sure what that makes me... are these "gens" based on the gen that birthed you or just the period you lived through.... There's nuance in all that I guess... 🤔

Jul 6, 2023

@hesir @jsstaedtler Gen are based on when you were born (these dates will move a little depending on who you ask).

“Lost Generation”: Born 1883-1900
“Greatest Generation”: Born 1901-1924.
“Silent Generation”: Born 1925-1945.
“Baby Boomers”: Born 1946-1964.
“Generation X”: Born 1965-1980.
“Generation Y” or “Millennials”: Born 1981-1996.
“Generation Z”: Born 1997-2012.
“Generation Alpha”: Born 2013-2025.

hesir Jul 6, 2023

@SimonCHulse @jsstaedtler ...still, seems counter-intuitive that there's an entire generation between me and my mother.

Fabian Transchel Jul 7, 2023

@hesir @SimonCHulse @jsstaedtler I see what you mean. But this is (heuristically) true for everyone: Between you and your parents, there is a whole generation that neither you nor your parents can relate to.

Consider your personal network: Unless you live in a rural area where everybody knows everbody around, you probably know people from your parents network (~age of your parents) and your network (~your age) and your childrens age (if you have some).

Fabian Transchel Jul 7, 2023

@hesir @SimonCHulse @jsstaedtler Now, while I don't agree with many of the takeaways[*] from the "generation [blank]" research, the semantic structuring of cohorts is sensible to some extent. (It aims, how could it by any other way, to ease ad targeting, obviously...)

[*] Worst offender is the tryhard approach towards bucketing in a way that imposes the assumption that would seem to indicate a hard boundary between cohorts. That's of course pure BS.

Brian Watson Jul 7, 2023

@hesir @SimonCHulse @jsstaedtler it seems counter intuitive to me that my parents (early '46) and I ('66) are almost in the same generation.

Frank Inserra Jul 7, 2023

@hesir @jsstaedtler @SimonCHulse @GreatBlueHeron This is why the people who lengthen the Boom period from 62, then to 64, then to even 66, have it wrong. I always regarded the Boom, of which I am a part, to most characteristically reflect the offspring of those who served in WWII (and perhaps early offspring of those who served in the the Korean conflict) -- firm end at 60, maybe 62. In short, the Baby Boom that resulted from the end of the war and return of the troops. Even among the Boomers, I feel a distinct break between the early Boomers (think civil rights, anti-war, Haight-Ashbury, and The Strawberry Statement) and the late Boomers (think Watergate, Dazed and Confused, disco, cults, yuppies).

@finserra @hesir @jsstaedtler @GreatBlueHeron my parents (born in 62 and 63, respectively, were children of Dads who served in the war. They were just young boomers.

sabik Jul 6, 2023

@SimonCHulse @hesir @jsstaedtler
Yes, and the poll is being run in 2023; the conversion to ages is for the current year

Brendan Jones Jul 7, 2023

@SimonCHulse I like how we started naming generations using the end of our alphabet ... so we had to move over to a new alphabet? 😆

@Brendanjones I thought that was funny when I heard it too.

TYB Jul 7, 2023

@SimonCHulse @hesir @jsstaedtler Depuis le temps que j'entends parler de 'génération XYZ' sans comprendre de quoi on parlait... mais, comme d'hab' on tente à tout prix de nous mettre dans des "Petites Boîtes" (Little Boxes pour les anglophones) jusqu'à la dernière petite boîte :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN7zwDKvNHE (eh ouais, je ne suis pas tout jeune 😋 )

Petites boîtes

YouTube

@TYB @hesir @jsstaedtler I don’t speak French, sorry.

TYB Jul 7, 2023

@SimonCHulse @hesir @jsstaedtler
TWP - Translate Web Pages works fine on mastodont

Paul Marrow 🇪🇺Jul 7, 2023

@hesir @jsstaedtler I'm older than both of you, but not by much. @hesir both my parents were younger. Generation names originally from US so sometimes different in other countries (I am not from US).

Deb has moved! (see profile) 🇨🇦Jul 6, 2023

@jsstaedtler I do see a lot of >50 here :-) but that's for another poll :-)
Me: >60 \o/

Gsmithy Jul 6, 2023

@jsstaedtler perhaps the 30+ remember "small" social websites like old school fb or myspace/ bebo. Resonates?

Mx Lottie Jul 6, 2023

@Gsmithy @jsstaedtler under that even, 29 and gosh I loved bebo, and before that we had a web ring on freewebs sites.

Zaphod Beeblebrox

@Gsmithy
23 here and I mostly just miss the one Skyrim internet forum where they helped me find Lydia when she disappeared
@jsstaedtler

Ponder Jul 6, 2023

@jsstaedtler I'm not far off 60!
Started on computers in 1979 and on the Internet in 1995.

mafe en españa Jul 7, 2023

@jsstaedtler Thank you for making this clear. Is there any "most common practice" one can read?
For me the GenY thing kinda fits as the people in WCW's "De-Generation X" have been half a decade older than me, so GenX could have been a thing there.

Does anyone actually remember WCW? Slightly after WWF but befor the current WWE? 🤭

Yes, I am that old and Yes, I enjoyed that show, back when The Rock was acting as an unknown scumbag. 🤪

Rev. GothAlice Jul 7, 2023

@jsstaedtler The bell curve is still fairly well represented; and predictably weighted older.